The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (BorgQueen (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time. Click here for an example of what these hooks will look like on the main page – you may wish to remove this template for a more accurate example, if you do ensure to add it back.

DYK queue status There are currently 4 filled queues. Admins, please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time! v t e Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 6 May 2024 (UTC) Current time: 05:04, 5 May 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 5 hours ago( verify reset purge )

Note: Because a preponderance of hooks on the approved nominations page are biographies or U.S.-related, it is usually appropriate to have several hooks on biographies or U.S. topics in any given set, but never more than half from either category. Further information is available at Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines#J. Thanks.

Tips on assembling sets can be found at Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas.

Hooks

Portrait of George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton

• ... that the head in the Portrait of George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton (pictured) is based on the work of another painter?
• ... that Werner Pinzner shot the investigating public prosecutor, his wife, and himself during an interrogation at the Hamburg police headquarters in 1986?
• ... that Jett Howard almost signed at Tennessee, but instead chose the Michigan team of his father Juwan Howard?
• ... that Lady Rainier has been raising a glass since 1903?
• ... that in 1998 Chris Lewis and other volunteer despammers on Usenet went on a labor strike?
• ... that David H. Ahl called Comp-Sultants "one of the first casualties" of the microcomputer revolution?
• ... that LaDainian Tomlinson scored two touchdowns in 47 seconds to break the NFL all-time single-season record?
• ... that one could get prosecuted for comparing the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Gollum, a character from The Lord of the Rings?

Hook lengths

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... and tomorrow's Main Page

To reset the contents of this page for the next update, copy the empty page from Template:Did you know/Clear.

Credits

Credit templates

You can also give out credits using the following templates:

• Article talk page: (((DYK talk))) ((DYK talk|5 May|2024|entry= ... that ...?|nompage=Template:Did you know nominations/Article name)) (check if small style templates in use, if so add |small=yes parm)
• Article creator/expander's talk page: (((UpdatedDYK))) ((subst:UpdatedDYK|5 May|2024|Article name))--~~~~
• Nominator's talk page: (((UpdatedDYKNom))) ((subst:UpdatedDYKNom|5 May|2024|Article name))--~~~~
• Notify contributor about addition to a Portal: (can be modified for more than one portal) – (((UpdatedDYKportal))) ((subst:UpdatedDYKportal|Article name|Portal:Portal name))--~~~~

Note that portal notifications are only done if you have taken the trouble to add the DYK hook to a relevant portal, which is entirely optional. The other notifications must be done before the preparation area page can be reset.

Images

• Don't forget to add an ((mprotected)) notice to the image description page (or ((C-uploaded)) plus a copy of the author attribution and the licence tag if you have uploaded a temporary copy from Commons).
• Alternatively, consider crediting the image file page even if the file is from Commons: ((DYKfile|5 May|2024))

Manually posting the new update (if the bot is down)

• Note: This is the manual method. When using DYKUpdateBot, the bot should automate all of the following except steps 1 and 11.

1. Make sure the image/media for the hooks to be loaded is on English Wikipedia or protected on Commons. If the image/file is on Commons and not protected, upload it to En and tag it with ((c-uploaded)). You do not need to protect the picture; this is done automatically because of the cascading protection of the Main Page. Alternatively, if you are an admin at Commons you can protect the picture/file at Commons instead of uploading to En.
2. Update T:DYK from the current queue.
3. Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear.
4. Reset the DYK time.
5. Increment the next queue pointer.
6. Copy the previous set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the front page) to the archive. Be sure to copy the final revision of the set (it should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update), and place the timestamp of the DYK update you just made above it. Please include the picture/file.
7. Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
8. On the local description page of the picture/file for the previous set of hooks, add ((DYKfile|5 May|2024|type=image)) (occasionally replacing image with video where appropriate). Note that, like the archives, this will create a one-day misalignment between the date on the file page and the date it actually appeared in DYK.
9. If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
10. Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with ((User:DYKUpdateBot/REMOVE THIS LINE)).
11. If you have time, check if there are any full preparation areas. Check the hooks for errors, and promote them to the next empty numbered queue if they're good. Clear the prep you took hooks from to look like this. Tag the numbered queue with ((DYKbotdo|~~~)) once the queue is loaded and ready.